Critical Fortune - Luiz Fernando Carvalho

1, Oct — 2005

Globale Télé

  • Jean-Phillipe Tessé
  • Caiers du Cinéma

“On doit à Luiz Fernando Carvalho le plus beau filme brésilien de ces dernières annés – A La Gauche du Père – mais l’essentiel de son oeuvre a été réalisée pour la télévision. Sa derinère série en date a connu un grand succès: Hoje é Dia de Maria. Très ambitieuse et très aboutie formellement, la série fait suite à dáutres projets d’envergure tels que Os Maias. Difficile d’imaginer parreille ambition artistique sur une télévision française.”

29, Jan — 2005

Alexandre, Maria & Cia

  • Affonso Romado de Sant'Anna
  • O Globo

“With the micro-series Hoje é Dia de Maria, Luiz Fernando Carvalho managed to bring to the screen one of the most imponderable things in narrative: The fantasy.”

9, Oct — 2005

In Search of our Brazilian Childhood

  • Marília Martins
  • O Globo

“The images of Hoje é Dia de Maria are rare. Everything escapes the global standard: it is fiction that is brave enough to reveal itself as fiction, it is a TV product that dares to search in the early movies for language reinvention.”
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23, Jan — 2004

A Defeat of Cultural Populism

  • Daniel Piza
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Hoje é Dia de Maria, whose Wednesday chapter was of a harlequin beauty, far above the stereotypical naturalism that dominates Brazilian TV, is proof of how the wiseasses that rule the media and creation never stop biting the dust.”

9, Oct — 2005

Master of Imagination

  • Esther Hamburger
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“One of the rare achievements that shows that when channels are willing to offer fine products, they appeal to a public that is lacking in good challenges.”
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Hoje é Dia de Maria

  • Nilson Xavier
  • Teledramaturgia

“Beauty in its Purest State.”

12, Jan — 2005

Hoje é Dia de Maria Allures and Has Good Ratings

  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“An Exquisite Production.”

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26, Dec — 2005

The Best of 2005

  • O Globo

“The second season of Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s micro-series once again showed a quality production.”

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13, Oct — 2005

Maria’s Second Journey is Even More Experimental

  • Cristina Padiglione
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Never seen before on the prime time of TV.”

13, Oct — 2005

Nothing is Randon on the Second Journey of Hoje é Dia de Maria

  • Laura Matos
  • Folha de S.Paulo

“Another pleasant surprise of this show that has already changed the history of Brazilian television: actress Inês Peixoto.”
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16, Jan — 2005

Out of the Box

  • Ricardo Valladares
  • Veja

“Art Television.”

10, Oct — 2005

The Dream Never Ends

  • Martha Mendonça
  • Época

“Once upon a time there was a TV show that revolutionized television. Innovative in language, narrative, light, and color.”

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13, Oct — 2005

Children’s Memory

  • Luiz Zanin Oricchio Alexandre Werneck
  • O Estado de S.Paulo
  • Jornal do Brasil

“It almost proposes a recovery of mass art discourse and audience standardization in the face of a spectacle society and a cultural industry.”

18, Jan — 2005

Miniseries Rhymes with Emotion and Content

  • Luiz Zanin Oricchio
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“The Hoje é Dia de Maria miniseries is so out of character with the usual TV programming that it leaves the critic even without parameters to compare it with other attractions of the genre.”
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